halcyon
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If "the time left is reduced" ...
by halcyon in... and that was written 2000 years ago ... .
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what possible meaningful value could that phrase have anymore?
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what does the 11/2008 WT say about rounding up faders?
by halcyon ini read this in another post, and since i haven't been reading wt for years, and if there was an original post i didnt' see it.
i'm scared.
are they officially coming after long-time faders now?
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I'm going to vote this year, why does it scare me so?
by halcyon insince i've left, i've: .
graduated from college .
gotten a body piercing .
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The only way to leave is to believe
by halcyon inthat it's okay for there to be no "other place" to go to.
once you realize that there doesn't have to be one right religion that one must be a part of, but that life is blessedly filled with imperfect ways and people who all have a little bit of truth, then you find that you can leave with peace of mind.
(that doesn't make it any easier to be shunned and lose family, but at least inside yourself you're not filled with a gnawing fear of your own decision.
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symbolism, intention (and linguistics?)
by halcyon insomething i've been pondering .... this will ramble, sorry .... .
the symbolism that we put on things.
i sorta got really sick of all the symbolism attached to everything in jw.
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your memories of COs?
by halcyon ini keep having this memory, and i don't know why it recurs.
i remember sitting down with a co one day, one of my last years there, in the back school of the kh, and i don't remember if i was out in fs that day or if it was after a meeting, and i don't remember my "status" in the hall at the time, but apparently i was "weak" because he was trying to encourage me.
it's quite possible that i requested a little chat with him after a bookstudy.
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secret santa thank you thread
by halcyon ini did my first secret santa all wrong ... didn't wrap the gift before sending it (duh!
but i'm not used to this kind of thing), and then waited too long before sending it so i got caught up in the mad pre-christmas-weekend rush to get things sent out, and then shipping cost more than the gift!
i'm so sorry to my recipient for not making it a little more ... "special" ... .
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Do you suppose all these drivers were JW?
by halcyon innot!!!
as mary said in the "comments you won't hear" thread, jws don't have a monopoly on honesty!.
http://www.ketv.com/cnn-news/18651779/detail.html.
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Utopia, millenium, nationalism and socialism ...
by halcyon inthis timeline reveals prevalent thinking from the 1700s on, that sounds a lot like fertile ground for an apocalyptic, socialist religion to set roots in: .
http://alt.nntp2http.com/history/colonial/2007/07/f7766c69afe3e30d43f7f9d73e17e3fa.html .
anyone have anything to add to this?